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Re: Going to miss my third OAV treatment.

OAV doesn't have to be done exactly every 7 days. A few days longer between won't be a big deal. What your trying to do is cover one entire brood rearing cycle. So if you do three treatments over 30 days about every 10 days. The once a week is based on the average hobbyist that works 5 days and off on the weekend. On the first treatment you will catch the mites that are not sealed in with the capped brood. The second gets mites that have emerged since the first. Then the third gets the rest that emerge after the second. This should catch most mites as any brood that had mite eggs in its cell at the first treatment have emerged (along with the mite) by the time you have applied the third.